Adjective: thingly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more thingly |
| Superlative | most thingly |
Sample Sentences
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All works have this thingly character. [2009, Donald Preziosi, The art of art history: a critical anthology:]
Adjectives inflected like thingly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English thingli, þingly; equivalent to thing + -ly. For sense development, compare Latin reālis.
Verbs referencing "thingly"
German Adjectives
dinglich.